1. On Romanization 2. Roman power and the Gauls 3. The civilising ethos 4. Mapping cultural change 5. Urbanising the Gauls 6. The culture of the countryside 7. Consuming Rome 8. Keeping faith? 9. Being Roman in Gaul.

Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul. By G. Woolf. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge1998/2000. Pp. xv + 296, figs 20. Price: £40.00 (bound); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0 521 414456 (bound); 0 521 789826 (paper).

Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2019. Major: Anthropology. Advisor: Peter Wells. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 465 pages.

Dynamics of Religious Ritual: Migration and Adaptation in Early Medieval Britain

The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography

paintings done outside H.M. Offices of Arms ', he very rightly denounces the design issued by the College of Arms for the ' married achievement of Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles', and rejects the ' utterly grotesque ' official design for the arms of the Duke and Duchess of York. It is perhaps as a subtle proof of the danger of employing unofficial draughtsmen that he reproduces a feeble drawing of the arms of Lord Lascelles, in colours, with the intriguing motto, In solo Dens sains.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003581500005667

The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region . By Cyril Fox, Ph.D., F.S.A. With illustrations, sketch-maps, and five coloured regional maps. 9½ × 6½; pp. xxv + 360. Cambridge: at the University Press. 1923. 31s. 6d. net.

This thesis aims to reassess one of the principal concepts used by archaeologists in their attempts to explain how 'Roman Britain' became 'early medieval England': the Anglo-Saxon migrations (i.e. the movement of people(s) from northern Europe or southern Scandinavia to southern and eastern England in the fifth century AD). This reassessment involves examining two inter-related themes. The first is largely historiographical, the aim being to highlight the socio-political and intellectual contexts in which 'the Anglo-Saxon migrations' became an important discourse. This is achieved by contextualizing both the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the archaeological investigation of 'the migrations' as well as the early historical sources that appear to describe those migrations (why and how were they written and by whom?).The second theme concerns material used by archaeologists to address questions such as: who were the people that migrated; where did they come from and travel to; when did this happen? A reassessment of the theoretical underpinnings of those archaeolological approaches is presented. Building on that, an analysis of several brooches types - material that has often been said to be significant for the above questions - is described. This analysis focuses on the contexts in which those brooches were deposited/found and thus highlights how people in the past used them as part of specific social practices. The results demonstrate that the pattern of material culture usually thought to prove that the Anglo-Saxon migrations did take place is actually quite varied and migrations may not be the best explanation for such diversity. Having critiqued the discourse of the Anglo-Saxon migrations, a number of alternative ways in which the Roman-Medieval transition in England might be understood are suggested. These alternatives focus on theories of material culture appropriation and how this relates to changing personal and/or collective identities.

Geoffrey James Harrison

Papers

Migrations and material culture change in southern and eastern England in the fifth century AD : the investigation of an archaeological discourse